Win32 binaries of GNOME platform software ========================================= The Win32 port of GNOME platform libraries in this directory are somewhat experimental. They work fine for me though in Evolution on Windows. The Win32 port of GTK+, Pango and GLib has much longer history and is quite stable. To be able to make use of the developer packages, you are expected to have experience of building GTK+-using software on Windows. The corresponding sources are in ../sources, except for those cases where there are some Win32 changes that are not in the official sources. In that case there is a .tar.bz2 file here. The .zip files are run-time and developer packages. The run-time package contains executables (programs and DLLs) and other files used at run-time. The developer packages contains files needed when developing software that uses the module in question. The .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz files are sources for those packages where the latest official source doesn't yet contain the latest Windows changes in CVS, or possibly not committed to CVS. The .zip files can be freely unzipped in any location. You can unzip them all in one location, or in individual locations, after your choice. Your will have to set up your PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH, and LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH environment variables accordingly. If you keep all in the same prefix, the latter two aren't needed. In any case, you will have to double-check the lib/bonobo/servers/*.server files so that the paths to DLLs or EXEs point to where you actually have them. In case a path in a .server file is relative, this is not necessary, as libbonobo on Win32 interprets that as relative to the folder where the .server file is. You will also need the packages in the dependencies directory. --Tor Lillqvist ,